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The Breakfast Experiment

This morning breakfast was an experiment in Southern restraint. We had buttermilk biscuits with creamy bacon gravy.

I will grant you that this doesn't sound like restraint, Southern or otherwise. Hear me out.

I love a good biscuit. Warm and fluffy. Bursting with steamy layers. Nothing better. . . until you step on the scale.

I wanted a biscuit that was more friendly. I also wanted the decadence I was used to. What to do? I made 2 substations.

First, I replaced half the fat (in this case butter and vegetable shortening) with coconut oil. Coconut oil is a solid shortening that is more quickly and completely used by the human body. So very little stores as fat. HOORAY!!! (Refined coconutoil is everywhere these days. I buy mine at Walmart. On the baking isle.)

Second, I replace the full fat buttermilk with nonfat buttermilk. This makes absolutely no difference in the final product but has the effect of reducing the fat even more.